Word: hogwash
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...asked, do I keep my baby from getting expelled from nursery school? "Next time," he said, "offer an alternative. Teach a silly word instead, like baloney or hogwash. If a two-year-old says dagnabbit, people are bound to laugh." But when I tried this at the supermarket the next day, Clementine began to sing, "Dad's rabbit is an asko, asko, asko." No one in Condiments laughed. While we were not exactly asked to leave, I felt it wise to limit my purchases to 15 items to qualify for express checkout...
...members of the industry really scheming to destroy a competitor? Gunmakers used all the scatological synonyms for hogwash last week to dispute that charge. Even if they wanted to collude, they say, they couldn't persuade the nation's thousands of individual gun sellers to follow. "This is a very simple industry, believe it or not, and it just doesn't work that way," says Beatriz Atorresagasti, marketing manager for the RSR Group, based in Winter Park, Fla., the wholesaler that will stop selling Smith & Wessons once its current stock is depleted...
...family claimed would prove that a government conspiracy--and not Ray--plotted the murder of the great civil rights leader. Its report, due out in a few weeks, concludes that the Kings' allegations are not "credible" and provide no basis for new criminal charges. In other words, they are hogwash. Considering that these lurid fantasies sprang from the fertile imagination of Ray's former lawyer William Pepper, the conclusion is no surprise...
...reasonably inconspicuous," and an old friend recalls his amorous reputation: "Jack never even went steady until late in his senior year." Author and Crimson editor Cleveland Amory '39, described him as "a pleasant, interesting guy. But the legend that we considered him destined for the presidency is pure hogwash." As JFK discovered during the Cold War, and as his former classmates witnessed during his reign in the White House, never underestimate the potential of the red, or the crimson, tide. A 1961 article in The Washington Post reports, "Musing, no doubt, about [JFK's] singular lack of prophetic indications, today...
This, I am happy to say, is hogwash...